Project Row Houses is excited to announce the unveiling of Round 52: Gulf Coast Anthropocene, curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Dr. Willie Wright. Join us for the Opening + Community Market on Saturday, July 31, 2021 from 3-7PM.

Across the globe, climate change has become an internationally recognized issue. In other circles, it has been viewed as an example of the Anthropocene, a geological era associated with human’s impact on the earth. We intervene in these conversations with Round 52: Gulf Coast Anthropocene. Participating artists include Kai Lumumba Barrow, Whit Forrester, Preston Gaines, HTX Community Fridges, Kindred Stories, Christina Molina, Rebecca Novak, and Xaviera Simmons. This Round questions what public art can inform us about this era, our connection to the built and natural environments, and our need for a more just and sustainable here-and-now. This Round does not subscribe to the notion that all people pollute equally.1 Moreover, we acknowledge that our current era is but one of several anthropocentric moments in world history – that a variety of lifeways, development traditions, and ecological relations have been eradicated here and abroad by various forms of statecraft (e.g., colonization, chattel slavery). Acknowledging that other human-environment relations existed beyond those of today, as well as in the present, we encouraged artists to incorporate a capacious understanding of the Anthropocene into their works